Partial log, keeper unknown, relating to a whaling voyage to the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic oceans and Okhotsk and Japan seas.$bIncludes descriptions of whales (blackfish, blue, bowhead, finback, gray, humpback, killer, right, and sperm), seen or taken, accidents at sea, punishment on ship, shipboard medicine, and indigenous people; and whale stamps, ship stamps, and accounts. Other places represented include Faial Island, Talcahuano, Shantarskie Islands, Honolulu, Apia, Hakodate-shi, Lahaina, Pohnpei Island, Maui, and Guam; Whaling vessel, out of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by James Gray and Thomas C. Harding, on voyage from 3 Oct. 1856-13 Apr. 1861, to the San Antonio, near Carroll, Hawaiian, Off Shore, and Sea of Japan whaling grounds; owner-agent: Sylvanus Thomas & Company; built at Medford, Mass., in 1836
In the collection of the
New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library
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